Christine McLaren has something she’d like to ask you …
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Hi, Price Tags readers. You’re the people that really care about the issues I’m about to talk about, so thanks for a quick minute. I’ll keep it brief:
There’s a lot of political ping-pong happening in the media right now surrounding the upcoming referendum. The politics are important, but the truth is that there is a lot about this referendum and the transportation system itself that is baffling to the average Metro Vancouver resident.
It’s hard to ask people to vote on something they don’t really understand. So we’re a group of journalists, analysts and multimedia data designers that want to fill that gap.
We’re producing a project dedicated to producing data-rich multimedia journalism that helps open the door for average people to better understand what’s going on leading up to this vote.
With real facts and numbers, we want to help people visualize exactly how our transportation works and is funded; why we’re at the point we are now where that needs to change; and exactly what the impact would be on people’s lives depending on the outcome of the referendum. We want to do it with infographics, video, animation and other multimedia aimed beyond just the transportation geeks—the kind of stuff that gets passed around on Facebook and talked about at the bar.
While we’ll be disseminating the content through a number of major media outlets in Metro Vancouver, it’s critical the project stays independent from other editorial agendas so that we can focus on our vision without getting caught in a reactive news cycle.
We launched a crowd funding campaign this week. I know there are a lot of requests going around right now, but please consider contributing. Your support will not only go toward clear-eyed data-driven reporting with lots of analysis and great design. It will also send a message to media that there is a hunger for more nuanced, issues-based reporting on transportation in Metro Vancouver beyond just SkyTrain breakdowns.
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The campaign is live here:
Moving Forward: Data-driven journalism
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You’ve read it. Now contribute: here.
Ah, another organization, asking for money for a good cause?
If that comes with better numbers than explaining my 30mn average commute trip (statcan) will be reduced by 20-30mn according to bettertransit.info, it is all welcome…but I am afraid that “real numbers” will undermine the Yes campaign 😉
What I could have expected is to have a website explaining what could be my door to door trip in ~2024.
Something providing info like what kind of destination I can reach in 30mn by Transit (now and after) such as this
https://voony.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/lougheedisochrone.jpg
(more here)
Translink has already all the tools for it (trip planner to be fed with the 2024 transit schedule) and I could have expected the 4 millions they spend on the Plebisicite campaign could have been toward effectively education, instead to extends shady contract to friends like Bob Ransford.
That said, I am not sure I understand why Christine McLaren needs money: Does people are not willing to do volunteer work to make the “yes” a success?
I assume the regular highlight is what you can currently reach in a given time from your marker and the purple is what you will be able to reach in the same time given the Broadway subway?
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